Description:
The left-hand face of 610, q.v. Moulded marble base (0.82h: 1.10 x d: 0.82; height incomplete), the upper part of which is fragmentary. See also 477
Text:
One line is probably missing above the die.  
Letters:
Late third to fourth century capitals: 0.03. 
Date:
Late third to early fourth century (before 312) (lettering, titulature).  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
[---]
2[Cl]audio A[·· c. 12··]
[··] proconsulị p̣[rouinci]ae
[Afr]icae omnium uirtutum
uiro innocentis integri-
5tatis uicoratae lenitatis (sic)
sublimis moderation[i]s
laudauilis iustitiae (sic)
Lepcimagnenses ex de-
creto ordinis patrono
10perpetuo
[---]
2[···]AVDIOA[·· c. 12··]
[··]PROCONSVL··[········]AE
[····]ICAEOMNIVMVIRTVTVM
VIROINNOCENTISINTEGRI
5TATISVICORATAELENITATIS(sic)
SVBLIMISMODERATION[··]S
LAVDAVILISIVSTITIAE(sic)
LEPCIMAGNENSESEXDE
CRETOORDINISPATRONO
10PERPETVO
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Cl
</supplied>
audio
A
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
proconsul
<unclear reason="damage" >
i
</unclear>
<unclear reason="damage" >
p
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
rouinci
</supplied>
ae
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Afr
</supplied>
icae
omnium
uirtutum
<lb n="4" />
uiro
innocentis
integri
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
tatis
uicoratae
lenitatis
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="6" />
sublimis
moderation
<supplied reason="lost" >
i
</supplied>
s
<lb n="7" />
laudauilis
iustitiae
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="8" />
Lepcimagnenses
ex
de
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
creto
ordinis
patrono
<lb n="10" />
perpetuo
</ab>

Two additional fragments were found after 1951; they confirmed the suggested restorations for the right edge.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] To Claudius A[·· ? ··], proconsul of the province of Africa, a man of all the virtues, of blameless integrity, of real gentleness, of outstanding moderation, of praiseworthy justice; the Lepcimagnensians, in accordance with a decree of the city-council, (set this up) to a perpetual patron.

Commentary:

Not otherwise known. The date should be before the creation of Tripolitania, i.e. before c. 312 at the latest, when the proconsul of Africa ceased to be responsible for this region. But letter-style, tone, and relation to 610 suggest rather a IV cent. date. It is possible that l.2 should be restored [ex] proconsule (as in 526, ll. 2,3); the position in which Claudius A[... earned the gratitude of Lepcis for his qualities as an administrator might then have been analogous to that of Decimus Hesperius (see 526 and PW VIII, 1249, 1)

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.26)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XI.26)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 576)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 576)

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